Hari Om Namo Narayana!

Do you recognize this illustration of the ‘Vaastu-purusha’ given below that builds the foundation for a model for building a house by treating it similar to a human body?

Let me explain in detail now why knowing this diagram is important.

See, it’s important to know the reason for anything you follow. Sure ‘Vaastu’ details the right and wrong placements for doors and windows and everything around the house for a non-restrictive energy flow.

But if you don’t know the logic behind it then it’s just blind faith.

Don’t fall into blind faith. I appreciate the answers other people have given here and they range across the spectrum from someone saying ‘Vaastu’ is just hocus pocus to someone saying it can have disastrous consequences on the inhabitants of a house if not followed properly.

The truth is almost always somewhere in the middle.

First let’s understand ‘Vaastu’. It is a system of architecture detailed in the ‘Atharva Veda’. The ‘Atharva Veda’ is the fourth and latest ‘Veda’ which details a lot of subjects that intellectuals refer to as ‘magic’ and ‘pseudo sciences. For example, ‘Jyotishmathi’ or ‘Vedic’ astrology.

You’re encouraged to order an English or Hindi translation of the ‘Atharva Veda’ and read it as convenient to get an idea about what it says and how it says it.

Like in ‘Vedic’ astrology, for ‘Vaastu’ as well, all the answers are not to be found in a single document.

The ‘system’ is made up of many details derived and put together from different ancient documents called ‘Puranas’ and ‘Vedic’ scriptures. Bear in a mind a big reason these systems are called ‘Vedic’ is because most of the scriptures that contain details about them belong to the ‘Vedic’ period in Indian history.

The ‘Vedic’ people were very attuned to ‘energy’ and that is why they believed so much in conducting ‘Yajnas’ to purify the environment and make offerings to the Gods.

In many ways this is a common theme across world culture. It is very similar to ‘Shamans’ in the Native American people or the ancient Chinese people who believed in the concept of ‘Ki’ which is energy.

The concept of ‘Vaastu’ is to align the structure of the house in a way that elevates ‘Prana’.

If you feel that all this is too spiritual and as some people have answered, ‘fake’, let me tell you that these concepts are no different from the concepts being talked about by Abraham Hicks in ‘The Law of Attraction’ or what is talked about by Eckhart Tolle or Deepak Chopra.

The only difference is that these people are able to convey their ideas more clearly and in the end all these ideas have been derived from ancient wisdom.

‘Vedic’ knowledge is less readily available, even less understood and what the practitioners of this knowledge are mostly able to communicate is a ‘trickle’ as part of an endless sea.

There is also a high degree of co relation between different stories or ‘kathas’ from the ‘Shrimad Bhagawatam’ and many different ‘Puranas’ with the ‘Puranas’ actually being loosely considered the ‘Fifth Veda’

So, what that means is, there is a model for construction, planning and studying people’s lives in general that is said to be in the highest alignment with the elements for every day life application.

‘Vaastu’ therefore relates a lot with other elements like ‘Jyotisha’ and you can use one to understand the other and ask deeper questions.

I’ll show you something interesting here.

Look, shown below are the two charts for the ‘Kalapurusha’ that finds application in ‘Jyotisha’ and ‘Vaastupurusha’ in ‘Vaastu’.

Now go back to the photo given at the beginning of this answer and tell me what do you see on the Southwest portion?

You see that the Southwest entrance falls at the feet of the ‘Vaastu-Purusha’. The feet are the foundation of the body.

How should the foundation be?

It should be strong, and it should be heavy, or the structure will fall.

It is for this reason that the Southwest should be a place where there is as much load as possible and least amount of open space.

Now if there already is an entrance there you can overcome every problem with a solution in ‘Vedic’ science.

This is, if you understand the crux of what the ‘Vedas’ are about and the approach they want you to take.

Energetically speaking the Southwest should be kept as heavy as possible. If there is an open space there like a door, you may keep an idol of Lord ‘Ganesha’ to balance it out.

Logic? Lord ‘Ganesha’ is the heaviest in the universe.

Deeper logic? Lord ‘Ganesha’ is the protector and guardian of wisdom and the heaviest thing in the universe is wisdom.

Obviously, this is just a part of the answer. I haven’t seen the entire map of the house and there are so many different aspects to it including the size shape and positioning of the plot on which the house is placed.

Also, in my experience I have seen that every house doesn’t suit every person. Some houses no matter how good will not be suitable for people with a particular combination in their charts and for others it may work very well who have a chart more aligned in that direction to support those metrics.

Compiled by

Vikas P Deshpande

M. E. Civil, Structural Consultant

Vastu and Feng Shui Consultant

0434681647, deshpandevikas@gmail.com